America no longer white, united, English-speaking

The Miami Herald ^ | 02 April 2004 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[MegaSilver]

In 1960, when JFK defeated Nixon, America was a nation of 160 million, 90 percent white and 10 percent black, with a few million Hispanics and Asians sprinkled among us.

We were one nation, one people. We worshipped the same God, spoke the same English language, studied American history and English literature, honored the same heroes, read the same books, watched the same TV shows, went to the same movies and saw ourselves as defenders of Western civilization against the godless communism of the Soviet Empire.

We were confident and proud of who we were. That was yesterday. But due to the Immigration Act of 1965 and the cultural revolution of the '60s, that America is now gone forever. And as one studies the latest projections of the Census Bureau, the America of our grandchildren will be another country altogether, a nation unrecognizable to our parents, a giant Brazil of the North.

In 2050, there will be three times as many people living here as in 1960 -- 420 million. White Americans will be a minority, 49 percent, and falling. Hispanics in the United States, more than 100 million, will be equal to the population of today's Mexico. Our Asian population will be almost as large as our African-American population today.

By countries of origin, America will be a Third World nation. Our cities will look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of Texas, Arizona and California will look like Mexico City.

Writing in Foreign Policy, Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington, author of Who We Are, raises an alarm about the huge infusion of Hispanics into the Southwest, and for many reasons.

Much of this mass immigration is illegal. Vast numbers are coming here only to work. They are not assimilating. They do not want to become Americans. They are concentrating in states bordering Mexico, which is their country and a nation with a historic grievance against us. They are holding on to their language and culture, creating a Hispanic nation within our nation. By 2050, there will be scores of millions of people living here whose loyalty is to a foreign country.

Moreover, as multiculturalism has captured our schools and colleges, immigrant children will have prejudices and grievances against America and the West reinforced as they learn. The academic elite that controls these schools already paints America as a nation with a rancid history of genocide, slavery, racism, oppression and imperialism.

Is the Census Bureau future the future that Americans wish? No. Are they willing to risk it for their grandchildren? No.

Why, then, does that future appear inevitable?

Answer: Though a majority of Americans wish to preserve the land they grew up in for their children, our elites -- political, academic, cultural and corporate -- are either unwilling to conserve that America or indifferent to its disappearance.

Most Americans want immigration cut back and all illegal aliens sent back. Why is the will of the majority, expressed in polls and referenda, not reflected in law or policy? Because we no longer live in a democratic republic; we are ruled by a managerial elite.

America's corporate elites want an endless supply of cheap labor. Our judges throw out popularly enacted laws to which they object. Our academic elites work to see ''white, racist America'' disappear. Our neo-Marxist cultural elites wish to be the gravediggers of the West and of Christian culture. And America's conservative party, the Republican Party, believes that Hispanics hold the key to retention of presidential power and is anxious not to offend Mexican President Vicente Fox.

If, by 2050, the America we grew up in has become a Tower of Babel of squabbling minorities that is falling apart, it will be because of the treason of the elites, and our lack of will to overthrow them.

[iconoclast]

unless you think making a fool of yourself

Neither original nor clever, but glad to see you're an equal opportunity insulter.

[iconoclast]

So, don't you get it? you're agreeing with me that BD is wrong when he says that they need AA when they don't.

YOU don't get (and I'm not about to into it with you on this color thing) but I dare say that when BD thinks brown, he is thinking Central American. And, he thinks of Asians as yellow.

[ronnieb]

I say that the wall was not built to stop immigrants but for defence. The building of the wall and China's closing off from the world are different issues


Of course you say that. You have said that and you will say that again, you were wrong when you said it the first time, and you will be wrong when you say it again.

[cyborg]

http://www.chinavista.com/travel/greatwall/greatwall.html

[Cronos]

And just maybe for the defense of their culture? A country has the right to do that when their country is being invaded by a foreign nation, just like America is.

Ronnie said that it was built to keep immigrants out of china. His actual words were China actually built a huge wall to keep immigrants out...

My point is yours, it was built for defence, not to keep immigrants out but to keep raiders out. Here's one of many links to explain the real reason why they built it

The Chinese built walls along their borders as early as the 600's B.C. During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, walls were built between Chinese regions which were fighting with each other. Walls were also built to protect China from outside invaders.

Emperor Shi Huangdi of the Qin dynasty (221 - 206 B.C.) is regarded as the first ruler to think of the idea of the Great Wall. He thought of connecting existing, older walls with sections of new wall. The building of the Great Wall continued into the Han and Sui dynasties.

Emperor Shi Huangdi ordered the building of the Great Wall to keep the enemy (the Mongols) from attacking his empire

[El Gato]

I have to add, that I've always believed that Reagan would never have screwed up like that, had he been a real soldier, like Jimmy Stewart or Glenn Ford or Ted Williams, instead of a member of the propaganda film unit.

When you're a soldier, sailor, airman or Marine, you go where you are ordered to go. It made perfectly good sense to put Ronald Reagan in the film unit. Wasn't Glenn Ford also in a film unit, although more of a combat camera kind of thing? Oh, and I though RR made mostly training films, rather than "propaganda", in fact the films Ford made come closer to "Propaganda" than those Reagan made. Reagan was of course an actor, while Ford was a filmmaker/producer. Different roles.

Stewart and Williams did of course serve on the front lines, (in the air in both cases) Stewart eventually retired as an Air Force Reserve general.

[ronnieb]

What is American culture BTW? I am still trying to figure that out.

Keep figuring, when you get an idea, maybe we can compare.

[cyborg]

If say it's freedom,economic opportunity and free exchange of ideas (really what's in the FR charter) then I'm sure someone would disagree but that's what I was taught. Popular culture is another thing. I don't know if I want Brittney Spears and 50Cent being the symbol of America around the world.

[William Terrell]

All the coloration, body attributes, basic facial features and physical types are like South American peoples and none like European Spanish. This is just observable without a degree in anthropology. Brazillian are mistaken for Mexicans by ordinary people all the time. I never heard of a Spaniard being mistaken for Mexican.

Spain may have conquered the people that were living in the region that is Mexico now, but certainly didn't spread much blood around, and certainly didn't wholesale settle down there.

The only logical and reasonable conclusion, without a time machine, is that South American people migrated at some distant time to Mexico.

[cyborg]

I never heard of a Spaniard being mistaken for Mexican.

** That would be cause for a fist fight if that ever happened. One of my buddies was married to a Spanish woman. She almost slapped a young Salvadorean girl who asked for directions in spanish because she was lost :(

[ronnieb]

Again, your particulars are correct, but your conclusions are wrong. Wether you call them immigrants, invaders, mongols, or whatever, the Chinese were protecting themselves, their group, their culture, from invading forces that would have altered them. Whatever you want to call it or argue against others calling it. It is the same thing. Your facts are correct, your interpretation wrong and wrong somemore.

[janetgreen]

My point is yours, it was built for defence, not to keep immigrants out but to keep raiders out

That was not my point. My point is that a country has the right to defend itself from invasion, whether that invasion is hostile or not. In America's case the Mexican invasion may not always be hostile, but American culture (and pocketbooks) are in peril.

We are allowing the importation of poverty, crime, disease, ignorance and dependence, and our own government is not doing squat about it.

[ronnieb]

I don't disagree with any of that, devil is in the details as always, hard to say what culture is. But everyone has one, and it is not required that we be able to define it verbally in order to have one, to quote the loving spoonful, a rock group from the distant past.."It is like trying to tell a stranger about rock and roll.."

[LWalk18]

Brazillian are mistaken for Mexicans by ordinary people all the time.

. Who mistakes a typical Brazilian (with black, white, and some Indian) with a typical Mexican (Indian and white)? Do you get mulattos and mestizos confused? The only Brazilian and Mexicans that can be confusing are those of European descent. Even there, white Brazilians tend to be most diverse because of European immigration in the 19th century; there are German, Italian, and Spanish Brazilians along with Portuguese.

[cyborg]

I guess someone would know American culture when they find it. It does mean different things to different people. There are essential things like what's in the founding documents that define what the USA is. I wish that politicians would take everyone's concerns seriously. If they did their job this thread would not be almost 700 posts long. Instead I just notice a stream of liberal fear mongering articles designed to get such a response out of people. Liberals are NOT having these discussions I guarantee you, and to me Pat just came off as doing the same but other side of the coin. Sometimes I find these debates and spirited disputes useful and other times not because we're not the one's in charge. Oh well.

[French-American Republican]

Very good post. Anyone who wants to boost his or her ego playing goody-two-shoes on this subject should take a look at what immigration is doing to France and educate himself or herself.

[cyborg]

Yes that's because the French government is doing it to themselves. When my mother came here to US in the 1960S she had testimonies for her character,etc. and that was just to be a guest worker. Blame self serving politicians for whatever issues there are with immigration now.

[El Gato]

What makes you think I can even read Spanish well enough to really understand what you've written? Wish I did, it would come in handy around here, but I'm too lazy to learn, I guess. My wife or older daughter could do it, but not me. I don't know if Matt/Travis can read Spanish or not.

[cyborg]

Show off :)

[Joe Hadenuf]

Interestingly, Pat is one of those rare politicians with a sense of humor and a ready smile and laugh.

Agree, and it's real, not phony.....